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  • 25-May-2015
    NZ hands tied on foreign home buyers under Korea FTA "bungle"
    South Korea-based buyers may have open access to New Zealand’s housing market assured under a new trade deal, prompting warnings it could undermine New Zealand’s sovereignty.
  • 22-May-2015
    Ethiopia signs 1.1 mln. Euro agreement with Comesa
    Ethiopia signed Friday a grant agreement of 1.1 million Euros with COMESA to finance its regional integration programmes.
  • 22-May-2015
    COMESA economic investment forum in Egypt next October
    “We are studying establishing a unit at GAFI to provide economic and investment information to African countries,” says investment minister
  • 22-May-2015
    Gov’t identifies damage to 9 farm goods from FTAs
    Producers of nine local farm goods have suffered damage from a rise in imports due to free trade agreements, becoming eligible for government support and compensation, the agriculture ministry said Tuesday.
  • 22-May-2015
    Chilean ambassador: FTA talk with China to cover e-commerce
    Chile’s ambassador to China said the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) talks during Chinese Premier Li Keqiang’s visit to Latin America will cover several new areas, including e-commerce, government purchases, and financial services.
  • 21-May-2015
    VN-South Korea FTA: A chance to develop firms
    The Viet Nam - South Korea Free Trade Agreement (FTA) signed on May 5 is expected to bring positive effects to many of the countries’ economic fields.
  • 21-May-2015
    China free trade agreement details within weeks of release
    Six months after the deal was struck, the full details of Australia’s trade agreement with China are expected to be released within weeks.
  • 20-May-2015
    Moscow plays nice with free trade as Ukraine sounds alarm over Russian troops
    Ukraine’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has announced a breakthrough in negotiations with Russia over Kyiv’s duty-free trade deal with the European Union – a much needed ray of hope in the ongoing war.
  • 20-May-2015
    Vietnamese exporters need to plan for FTA lawsuit liability
    New free trade agreements (FTA) will help Vietnamese companies improve access to markets and diminish costs, but they will also require strategies and policies to minimise the probability of trade lawsuits, speakers said at a seminar on global trade late last week in HCM City.
  • 18-May-2015
    Failed Free-Trade Agreement negotiations between Caricom, Canada disappointing — Bartlett
    Opposition spokesman on Foreign Affairs & Foreign Trade Edmund Bartlett is expressing disappointment at the failed Free-Trade Agreement negotiations between Caricom and Canada.
  • 18-May-2015
    India, EU can break FTA deadlock: envoy
    India and the European Union could break the deadlock impeding the Free Trade Agreement when Union Minister of State for Commerce and Industry Nirmala Sitharaman travels to Paris in June to attend an Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) event, European Union Ambassador in New Delhi Joao Cravinho told The Hindu.
  • 18-May-2015
    Mwanakatwe joins other African ministers for pre- Continental Free Trade Area launch in Ethiopia
    Commerce, Trade and Industry Minister , Margaret Mwanakatwe joined other African Union Ministers of Trade, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia for a high level meeting convened by the African Union to prepare for the launch of negotiations for the Continental Free Trade Area (CFTA).
  • 18-May-2015 Jakarta Post
    Renegotiating the bite of our BITs
    Apart from its network of BITs, Indonesia is also a party to a number of multilateral and regional investment agreements such as the ASEAN Comprehensive Investment Agreement which also contain an ISDS clause, including recourse to ICSID arbitration.
  • 18-May-2015 Foreign Control Watchdog
    More Dirty Little TPPA Secrets
    Imagine Trade Minister Tim Groser gets to the meeting of ministers to do the final horse-trading for the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (now slated to happen in late May 2015), plays his final hand and signs away our future for a carton of milk powder. He will know that’s not really the end game: a final deal is not a final deal until the US Congress says so. The US has two more aces in its hand.
  • 17-May-2015 Huffington Post
    Canada just threw a grenade into Elizabeth Warren’s trade fight with Obama
    Last week, Canadian Finance Minister Joe Oliver gave a speech in New York arguing that the Volcker Rule — a key tenet of the US’ 2010 banking law — violates the North American Free Trade Agreement. This underscores Senator Warren’s warning that such deals, including the Trans-Pacific Partnership that Obama is currently negotiating, jeopardize financial reform.
  • 17-May-2015
    SL-China FTA to allow skilled workers here
    A storm is brewing over renewed negotiation of the proposed Indo-Sri Lanka Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) after Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi threw the ball in the Sri Lankan court saying India was interested in finalising this agreement.
  • 17-May-2015 Kyodo
    Chief negotiators resume TPP talks in Guam
    Chief negotiators from 12 countries resumed talks Saturday in Guam on a US-led Pacific free trade initiative, to be capped by ministerial-level talks from May 26 to 28.
  • 17-May-2015 La Silla Rural
    Impacts of the US-Colombia FTA in the farm sector: The portraits
    A new book “puts faces” on the realities rural people are experiencing two years into the US-Colombia FTA.
  • 17-May-2015 Biodiversidad en América Latina
    Impacts of the US-Colombia FTA in the farm sector
    This report looking at specific cases that reflect the farming reality of Colombia allows us to verify what happened with the promises around the US FTA and open a broad debate about it.
  • 16-May-2015
    ECOWAS ministers dialogue on EPAs, common external tariff in Accra
    The 74th Ordinary Session of the Council of Ministers for sub-regional bloc, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), opened here on Friday to discuss among other things the memorandum relating the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) .